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From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: can fat32 partition be mounted?
Date: 18 Apr 1997 21:04:55 -0400
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>>> Can Fat32 partitions be mounted in freebsd?
>>> I think the answer is no. But I wanted to make sure. What are my
>>> options?
>> The can, but the long filenames aren't understood. Also, beware of
>> the bug ! If you see something that says your cluster size is wrong,
>> unmount it immediately or you'll suffer.
>> You'd be better to use mtools. I believe they support long filenames.
> I think your confusing VFAT for FAT32.
> As we are all aware that there is development for FAT32 under Linux. So
> it shouldn't be long until it's ported? maybe?
In the meantime, we can use Mtools 3.6, just released. The release
notice follows.
From: Alain Knaff <alknaff@hal.local.host>
Subject: Mtools-3.6 - use MS-DOS disks without mounting them
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Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 17:20:50 +0200
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I would like to announce a new release of mtools, a collection of
utilities to access MS-DOS disks from Unix without mounting them.
Mtools supports Win'95 style long file names, FAT32, OS/2 Xdf disks
and 2m disks (store up to 1992k on a high density 3 1/2 disk). Mtools
also includes mpartition, a simple partitioning programing to setup
Zip and Jaz media on non-PC machines (SunOs, Solaris and HP/UX).
Mtools can currently be found at the following places:
http://linux.wauug.org/pub/knaff/mtools
http://www.club.innet.lu/~year3160/mtools
ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu
and soon at:
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/Incoming/mtools-3.6.tar.gz
(will be moved to ftp://pub/Linux/utils/disk-management/mtools-3.6.tar.gz)
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/sources/usr.bin/mtools-3.6.tar.gz
There is an mtools mailing list at mtools@linux.wauug.org. To
subscribe to it, send a message containing 'subscribe mtools' in its
body to majordomo@linux.wauug.org. Mailing list archives are at
http://linux.wauug.org/hypermail/mtools
Before submitting a bug report, check whether your problem has not
yet been fixed in one of the Alpha patches at:
http://www.club.innet.lu/~year3160/mtools or
http://linux.wauug.org/pub/knaff/mtools
Mtools-3.6 includes the following new features:
* Mzip -e now only ejects Zip disks when they are not mounted.
* Mzip now has a manpage
* Mzip now detects bad passwords and prints an error message
* Better interoperability with dosemu
* Various portability fixes for AIX, A/UX, HP/UX, BEOS and SunOS4
The following features of mtools 3.6 already existed in mtools
starting from 2.5.4, but not in mtools 2.0.7 (distributed with
Slackware and other Linux distributions):
1) Support for variable sector sizes.
2) Support for Ciriaco Garcia's "2m" formats.
3) Support for formatting disks with 16-bit fats (hard disk
partitions for instance)
4) Support for formatting ED disks (Their capacity is too big to
use a 12 bit FAT and 1 sector clusters. It either uses bigger
clusters or a 16 bit FAT)
5) Automatically configures the correct disk geometry.
6) New mmount command. Reads the boot sector, sets the geometry
and finally mounts the disk.
7) It is now possible to copy files to/from stdout/stdin:
mcopy a:test - and mcopy - a:test. This is useful for piping
and for scripts.
8) Mtools now tries several sources to get its drive geometry
configuration from: first ~/.mtoolsrc, then /etc/mtools.conf, and
finally compiled-in.
9) Fat checking code is now optional. This allows to read old
Atari disks and other weird formats.
10) Support for DOS and Atari serial numbers.
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